"Pricklouse" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Pricklouse
"Pricklouse" Meaning
A small, usually sessile, flat-bodied insect with a hard, chitinous body, segmented with six legs and usually bearing spines or cilia, that lives in damp places, especially in soil or among moss.
"Pricklouse" Examples
Prickly or pricklouse
- Prickly is used for describing plants or objects that have sharp parts, especially the outer layer:
The cactus is very prickly, so we should handle it gently. Bushes are often prickly to the touch.
- Prickwouse or is sometimes used to describe especially somebody who causes emotional distress to people, though it is perhaps more commonly spelled as "prickly people."
She has always been a prickly person who doesn't easily open up to new people.
- Pricklouse is also used in a way which could sound harsh - to describe a wishy-washy person, indicating that concealing/disguising the true nature of a political solution:
Pricklouse issue words referring to appeasement (Political dictionary).